The Chicago Tribune reports that a bunch of Ron Santo memorabilia was tossed into a dumpster by Cubs employees. It was saved, however, by the owner of Murphy’s Bar who saw it in the dumpster. It was retrieved by bartenders who let the Santo family know about it. The Cubs, obviously embarrassed, apologized. Now the Santo family is going to determine what it wants and what it’ll let the bar keep.

I usually defend your writing, Craig, but to imply that it was discarded on purpose is just plain silly.

The Cubs organization as a whole has nothing but respect for Ron Santo. Mistakes are made every day in all facets of life, even big mistakes like this. People stupidly lose large amounts of cash, sell off priceless antiques for small sums of money at garage sales, and incarcerate and jail innocent people for years on end for crimes they didn’t commit. But, no, the Cubs organization threw away the Santo memorabilia on purpose, right? It’s not like somebody could’ve just made a mistake!

When you published the words, “I think the Cubs have already spoken as to what they think of it,” you made another one of those common-but-serious mistakes.

Once again you have failed to notice the famed “sarcasm font”, Little Grasshopper. Craig has learned the old lesson first taught to me by a junior high English teacher, “Sarcasm is a dangerous weapon. Be careful how you use it.” Craig’s use was rapier-like and deservedly pinned the Cubs organization to a wall.

Yeah, it might have been sarcasm, but it was poorly written if it were so.

Using the printed word, sarcasm is not always easy to detect. This doesn’t mean it’s impossible to see, but it usually has to be a lot more obvious as compared to the spoken word (generally used with body language, voice inclination, etc.).

Finally, my point still stands: it was still a mistake. It doesn’t represent the entire Cubs organization, and Craig shouldn’t even be using sarcasm to attack the organization in this situation.